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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Noctuoidea » Erebidae

Family Erebidae

Classification · Pronunciation · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Print References
Palthis asopialis - Faint-spotted Palthis? - Palthis asopialis Fall Webworm Moth? Top View - Hyphantria cunea Underwing-1 - Catocala blandula Orange panopoda - Panopoda repanda Catocala neogama Painted Lichen Moth - Hodges #8090 - Hypoprepia fucosa Moth? - Euclidia cuspidea One-lined Zale - Zale unilineata
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Noctuoidea
Family Erebidae
Pronunciation
ERR-e-bi-dye
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Erebidae, Leach 1815
Formerly part of Noctuidae; includes the former noctuid subfamilies Calpinae, Catocalinae, Euteliinae, Herminiinae, Hypeninae, among others
One of seven North American families in the superfamily Noctuoidea (or eight families, if Pantheinae is given family status [Pantheidae], according to Kitching and Rawlins, 1999).
Print References
Lafontaine JD, Schmidt BC (2010) Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico.(PDF) (a)

Kitching, I.J., and J.E. Rawlins. 1999. (The Noctuoidea, pp. 355-401 in Kristensen N.P. (editor). Lepidoptera: Moths and butterflies. Volume 1: Evolution, systematics and biogeography. Handbook of Zoology/Handbuch der Zoologie. Walter de Gruyter. Berlin/New York).
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 26 February, 2006 - 7:43pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 3 July, 2011 - 6:53pm

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